DirecTV and Direcway 2way internet. Both are great, which is a good thing because I have no other choice.
Bell Express-Vu
A Canadian version of Dish Network. I’m pretty happy with them, but my bill has gone up slightly every month for the past 4 or 5. If it happens much more I’m going to send the dish to Toronto and tell them to shove it up their collective asses and go back to cable.
C-Band and Ku on a 10’ BUD.
Dishnetwork, aka “cable on a stick”. I like it very much.
DVB (Mpeg) satellite on the BUD and a fixed pizza dish for Canadian music.
Currently installing a second BUD for the DVB.
Another Bell Express-Vu here, and I like it. I had standard cable before that but I switched because I was so fed up with their poor service.
Now, on a acreage, I have no other option than satellite. The down side is that I have had to replace my decoder once. The up side is Bell obliged me with no hassle, no hidden costs and shipped it to me within a few days. (Okay so it was within warranty, but still.)
Out of them all, the channels we watch (when we actually do watch the tube) are: CNN, Civilization, Discovery, National Geographic, History, Tech TV, Animal Planet, TLC (The Learning Channel) and IFC (Independant Film Channel). Not that you asked or anything…
Show off. We only get 4 terrestrial channels. I struggle to find time to watch any of those, let alone wading through a myriad of alternatives.
Basic Cable (Adelphia).
I want to upgrade to Digital, but I only want it for Fox Sports World (for international soccer). And maybe ESPN Classic.
So alas, I’m stuck with basic.
BTW, Adelphia? Not that good, IMO.
Dish Network. Very basic cable to get local channels and to save about $15/month on the cable modem.
No television reception at all.
None.
No rabbit ears, no cable, nothing.
On purpose.
I highly recommend it.
I can probably pull in broadcast tv on a couple channels, but my tv is basically just an output device for a dvd player and ps2.
Being part of the no-tv crowd of course gives me mental superpowers, with which I can rend vending machines with my eyeballs.
Basic cable. Like gotpasswords, I live under the transmission tower in San Francisco (say, we must be neighbors) and couldn’t get decent broadcast reception. My bedroom T.V. is rabit ears only, and gets a small collection of fuzzy broadcast channels.
When I first moved into my house there were TV coax cables strewn willy nilly in the living room, under the rain gutters ourside and into the dinning room. I hooked up the tv but nothing happened. While all my friends were hauling in my boxes of stuff (and drinking my beer and eating the KFC chicken) I was tracing where the cable went to. It ended in a little utility hole on the sidewalk just outside my house. I lifted the lid and found a coax cable unconnected from a junction. I connected it and when I walked into my living room all my friends were watching cable TV. Had free cable for 4 years and sometimes even had free HBO and MTV and Showtime. My channels varied about every 8 to 12 months but I always had the basic channels.
Eventually, the company got smart and disconnected my “free” service and I did without for a couple of years relying on the ol rabbit ears and such. Never did get a really clear picture. Then They had a promotion and I got basic channels for 18 bucks a month and Ive been with that ever since.
Several months ago, I got a cable modem for 99 bucks. Clerk told me I’d get a rebate check for 99 bucks if I subscribe to our local broadband via our cableTV company. I will never go back to dialup again.
direct TV
No rabbit ears, and the only station that comes in is the Home Shopping Network. I use the TV purely as a DVD display.
Digital cable w/cable modem. Got tired of rabbit ears several years ago and there is no way I’m going back to that headache.